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The United Nations General Assembly publishes a roster of sixty-five multi-national companies supposedly in ‘criminal collabora
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Communist-backed Katangan gendarmes, who had been living in neighbouring Angola, have invaded the region around Kolwezi in sout
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Prime Minister Vorster gives the first official confirmation of his two-day meeting with President Houphouet-Boigny in the Ivor
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Patrick Laurence, journalist from the Star, was charged with contravening the Suppression of Communism Act by publishing a stat
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Lawrence George Green (72), SA author of mainly travel books, dies in Cape Town. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of Sou
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The International Court of Justice at The Hague rejects the government’s application that a plebiscite be organised in Namibia
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The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi
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Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever (58), SA author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, dies.
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Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser officiate at the ceremony to blow up a san
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After a vote dominated by the Afrikaner Nationalist majority in the South African Parliament people of Colour (i.e. mixed race)
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Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co
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Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv. Arab Legion of Trans-Jordan invades Pa
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Riots disrupt the general election in Cairo. Twenty-three die and 180 are injured.
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of adventure books (i.e. King Solomon’s Mines) who worked in SA for several years, dies in Lond
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France has had limited successes against the Rif rebels and their leader Abd al-Krim.
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Britain, Germany, and Belgium hold a conference to set the frontiers of the Belgian Congo.
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
Hasting Kamuzu Banda was the leader of Nyasaland which became Malawi in in 1964, with him as its president. Banda was born in Kasungu and went to study in the…
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Prof. Johannes du Plessis Scholtz, linguist, author and historian, is born in the Hottentots-Holland district, Cape Colony.
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For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men
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The area Ohrigstad River in the Lydenburg district is proclaimed as a public gold field after the discovery of gold in the Sela
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The Fingo (Mfengu) leaders gather at Peddie in the presence of the Rev. John Ayliff to take the ‘Fingo Oath’, namely: To obey G
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Gerrit Maritz, Voortrekker leader, marries Angenitha Maria Olivier.
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Johannes Willem Viljoen, SA scout and hunter, is born in Uitenhage, Cape Colony.
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Ryk Tulbach, governor of the Cape from 1751, is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Thousands of Liberian war refugees, many ill after a week at sea, are refused admission to the Ghanaian port of Takoradi.
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As a result of the NP’s withdrawal President Mandela carries out a Cabinet reshuffle replacing all the NP ministers with ANC ap
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Twelve people are killed in Tokoza, East Rand, in conflict linked to SDU factions in Katlehong.
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An underground gas explosion kills fifty-three miners in the Middelbult coal mine at Secunda, 100 km from Johannesburg.
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The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA
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